Carlos Castillo Armas

Castillo Armas immediately reversed Decree 900, returning land to the United Fruit Company and large landowners. He also disenfranchised illiterate peasants and banned labor unions and leftist political parties, consolidating power among the elite.

Following the CIA-backed coup against Jacobo Arbenz, Castillo Armas was installed as president of Guatemala. He reversed Arbenz's land reforms, returned expropriated land to the United Fruit Company, and established a repressive, anti-communist regime.

Castillo Armas was shot and killed in the presidential palace by a palace guard, Romeo V